Author: maura nguyễn donohue (she/they)
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The healing grace of Charlotte Brathwaite’s “Forgotten Paradise: PASSAGE”
Who is theater for? Where and how does theater speak for, from and to the margins, the marginalized, the forcibly displaced, the intentionally erased?
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What is a liberated body? “Talking” Exorcism = Liberation with Yanira Castro
An appropriately multi-modal effort towards dialogue about Yanira Castro’s Exorcism = Liberation, a massive public art project that began in July and continues until election day.
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Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector
La MaMa ETC and CultureHub presented Kazakhstan’s ORTA Collective in Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector.
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Binging to Bliss in “Bodhisattva Beer Run”
A golden age is brewing for AAPI contemporary performance[i] with Glenn Potter-Takata and evan ray suzuki serving as crafty “kodama” (木霊, 木魂 or 木魅) leading us through the forest to refreshing springs of compositional bliss.
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Ancestral cycles in Alethea Pace’s “between wave and water”
Alethea Pace’s “between wave and water,” presented recently at BAAD!, honors the memory of the ancestors buried there in a potent passage of works that resist the urge to erase America’s history of slavery. It is a purposeful, hefty juxtaposition of care-fully crafted encounters, movement through space as memorial practice, memorial practice as malleable time…
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January roundup – Mina Nishimura, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Yasuko Yokoshi, and Motus
So, while trying to strictly manage the pervasive NYC version of Arts Presenters-infected “festival fomo,” I still accumulated enough exposure to the spores of a range of performances in the January flurry to wander into a compost pile of considerations on what is doggedly sprouting among us in the age of extinction.
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Fractals of Prometheus Ignites
The flower we touch as children in awe burns. The only chide needed to withdraw. With undeniable power to flaw, fire will still flicker and die. For it lives, as […]
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Kayla Farrish “Put Away the Fire, dear pt.2” (in development) at La MaMa Moves
Put Away the Fire, dear pt.2 (in draft form) at La MaMa Moves last month moves in and out of cinematic and live performance structures, often jump-cutting from internal narratives to vigorous dancing
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Thinking “La Machine de Turing” at La MaMa
There is an insidious thrum of accelerated timelines smashing together at the messy intersection of computational expansiveness, human fear, militaristic state intervention and governmental ignorance in “La Machine de Turing” currently running at La MaMa through March 5th
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the land remembers, do you remember the land?
maura re/members with george emilio sanchez’s “In the Court of the Conquerer” & zavé martohardjono’s “TERRITORY: the Island Remembers” – audio version link available at top of post
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Harmonic Convergences at La MaMa Moves! 2021
A dominating thread of grief and healing wound its way through La MaMa Moves! 2021 and most of the artists brought song and storytelling into a festival that, as curator Nicky Paraiso acknowledged was full of resilient artists “making work that is essential and true to this pivotal moment in time.”
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Can I get a witness!! Looking for e pluribus pluribus with George Emilio Sanchez’s “XIV” at Dixon Place
With XIV, my favorite experimental constitutionalist bruthrr George Emilio Sanchez is crashing a brown, brooding and bold biography into the broader American histories of other fights for equal rights. XIV offers an incisive and often intimate look at the never ending challenge that is our country’s constant separations of equality in a show that continues…